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The New York State attorney general has filed an enormous lawsuit against Spectrum (previously known as Time Warner Cable). The AG asserts that TWC systemically lied to the FCC, defrauded customers, and knowingly misrepresented its service for at least the past five years.

Verizon has been caught distributing memos threatening to fire its workers if they repair copper infrastructure, while the company continues to insist it is investing in maintaining its existing service.

A research group in South Korea have developed an interesting use for nanowires: Counterfeit prevention. By randomly dumping (their words, not mine) multicolored nanowires onto a plastic film, the researchers say they have created patterns (a nanowire fingerprint if you will) that are nearly impossible to replicate. These fingerprints could be embedded in electronics, money, drugs, and so on, to prevent fraud and the proliferation of counterfeit goods.

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